Jointly produced by the Musei Vaticani and Libreria Editrice Vaticana, the paintings of the Sistene Chapel are examined in relation to the theological interpretations prevailing in that period. Greek language text. 186 illus., most colour.

The excavations at the Graeco-Roman period Egyptian village of Karanis yielded thousands of artefacts. The Karanis material in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Library Papyrology Collection forms a unique body of information for understanding life in an agricultural village in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt.

Karanis in Egypt's Fayum region founded around 250BC housed a farming community with a diverse population and a complex material culture. It eventually proved to be an extraordinarily rich archaeological site, yielding tens of thousands of artefacts and papyri that provide a wealth of information about daily life in the Roman-period Egyptian town.

Reinforces the view that the site of Kataret es-Samra in Jordan is part of an extensive Middle/Late Bronze Age cemetery. Studies of the material culture recovered from the tomb of 11 burials brought up to date through comparison with materials recovered from Transjordanian sites. 109 b/w illus, 11 tbls.

This volume is the first in a planned series of final reports on the Archaeological Expedition to Khirbat Iskandar and its Environs, Jordan, begun in 1981 by Principal Investigator, Suzanne Richard of Gannon University.

New York-based Theo Kalomirakis is the leading creator of opulent home theatres and one-of-a-kind entertainment environments. This book includes fifteen of these incredible spaces with superb colour photographs and descriptions of the technology that make this revolution in entertainment and design possible. Greek language text. 200+ colour illustrations.

This volume presents the findings of the excavation at Kom el-Hisn in the northwest Nile Delta. This provincial community was often in the orbit of Memphis, the capital and administrative centre of Egypt's Old Kingdom Period. Kom el-Hisn's faunal, floral, lithic and architectural remains are presented and discussed in detail.